TSA To Allow Laptops In Approved Bags
mnovotny writes “TIME is reporting that TSA will be allowing laptops in approved bags through security checkpoints. “The new rules, announced Tuesday and set to take effect Aug. 16, are intended to help streamline the X-ray inspection lines. To qualify as “checkpoint friendly,” a bag must have a designated laptop-only section that unfolds to lie flat on the X-ray machine belt and contains no metal snaps, zippers or buckles and no pockets.”" Don’t you feel safer? I wish an independent 3rd party group could get together and see what they could get through security without being arrested for the experiment. So little of what the TSA is doing is any more than illusion.
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Original post by CmdrTaco